After overthrowing the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang worked hard to establish a unified Ming Dynasty, and he knew very well that it was not easy to fight the Jiangshan and it was even more difficult to defend the Jiangshan. According to historical records, shortly after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he invited all the ministers to the palace, hoping that everyone would speak freely and offer suggestions for the new dynasty. At this time, Liu Bowen said, "Because since the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, the central plains have become increasingly loose, resulting in an incorrect government program, and now the top priority is to take the law seriously, first to govern the country strictly, and then to benefit the government." After listening to Liu Bowen's suggestions, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly realized that he had urgently formulated the famous "Daming Law", and everyone knows that the "Daming Law" is a rather strict law, each of which is extremely strict, and only if someone violates it, no matter who it is, it will act according to the law. According to historical records, Zhu Wenzheng, the only nephew of Zhu Yuanzhang at that time, actually violated the law and discipline, and Zhu Yuanzhang showed no mercy and directly revoked his official position, at that time he was the most powerful military commander, but Zhu Yuanzhang was also ruthless, and it is conceivable that Zhu Yuanzhang's rule was strict.
However, everything has accidents, in the history of the Ming Dynasty, there was a 16-year-old teenager who was sentenced to death by him for angering Zhu Yuanzhang, but later Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly exempted him from the death penalty and gave him an official commendation. The teenager's name was Zhou Wan, and his father was serving as a prefect in Anhui at the time, but he was implicated in a case and was actually beheaded by Qiu Houqing. At this time, Zhou Huan was very aware that his father had been wronged, so he wanted to wash away his grievances, and everyone should know that at that time, in order to rectify the rule of officials and win the hearts and minds of the people, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a special "drum of grievances" in Nanjing, and the common people could come directly here to file a complaint without going through the bureaucratic class. So Zhou Huan met Zhu Yuanzhang in this way, and claimed that his father was wronged, but there was no evidence, so Zhu Yuanzhang did not believe that in order to save his father's life, Zhou Huan quietly asked his father to be tortured, but Zhu Yuanzhang still did not agree. So he asked Zhou Huan to go back first, and the clever Zhou Huan knew that once he went back, his father would undoubtedly die, so he kept kneeling on the ground and did not get up, asking Zhu Yuanzhang to retry the case, Zhu Yuanzhang saw the teenager Zhou Huan dead face, and when he was angry, he was actually very angry and asked the guards to drag him out and behead him.
What people did not expect was that when Zhou Huan was escorted to the execution site to prepare for the execution, he was not afraid at all, on the contrary, he was very happy, and the official in charge of the beheading was puzzled, so he went forward and asked, "You are only 16 years old, but you are about to die, why are you so happy?" At this time, the 16-year-old teenager Zhou Wan laughed in the sky before he was killed, and said a touching sentence, "If my death can be exchanged for my father's life, then I will die as I want, if I die, my father is still dead, then why are we afraid that our father and son will go to Huangquan together?" The supervisor felt that the teenager in front of him could actually say these words, and felt that the case was not simple, so he reported this situation to Zhu Yuanzhang, who ordered him to be spared death and given him a supervisory official position. Zhou Huan was required to be responsible for supervising the tasks assigned by the emperor, and if there was any failure to carry them out, he would immediately report them to Zhu Yuanzhang, so even many high-ranking officials with high power did not dare to offend Zhou Huan casually.
The author believes that Zhu Yuanzhang himself was born at the lowest level of society, and from childhood to adulthood, he witnessed the corruption of Officials of the Yuan Dynasty, and it is precisely because of this that he began to implement severe punishment after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. Frankly speaking, at the beginning of the establishment of a dynasty, the implementation of severe punishment and harsh laws can ensure social stability and the people can live and work in peace and contentment, Zhu Yuanzhang knows this well, only formulated the "Daming Law", and also received good results, laying a good foundation for the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, which is really valuable.